[PYTHON DB-SIG] [comp.lang.python] Date-Time requirements (esp. for databases)

Andy Eskilsson flognat@fukt.hk-r.se
29 Oct 1996 10:52:58 +0100


/ Jim Fulton <jim@digicool.com> wrote:
| 
|  1. Support conversion from strings in a very wide variety of formats
|     (e.g. 'Oct, 1, 1994 12:34am EST', '1994/10/1 00:34:21.456')

Thats what I have created my strptime function to do, you can find it
at: http://www.fukt.hk-r.se/~flognat/hacks/, the inverse of strftime. 

|  9. Support for daylight-savings time.

In what way should this be done, when converting from local time to
GMT or? That will need a database :-) I mean whe have just moved the
switching from summertime to wintertime  one month, here in sweden.. 

	/Andy

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